(21 Nov 2014, 6:58 pm)Tom wrote And you know that it's rare or odd do you?
I've saw original livery/09 pulsars on the 22 a couple of times when I've been in Sunderland. 

Yes, but Arriva released in a statement with the launch of brand new vehicles on service 23 (and of course the introduction of service X21) that the vehicles to operate service 22 would be four years old (ie the 61-reg Pulsars).

It's comparable to Go North East's dual-door Volvo B10BLEs on service 9. Shouldn't happen, but does on a daily basis, so one could argue that it could still be posted on the Rare & Odd Workings thread for GNE...